Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad is earliest among the 3rd group of IITs, announced in 2014 by the Govt. of India. IIT Palakkad started functioning with the support of its mentoring institute, IIT Madras from the academic year of 2015-16. The academic program was launched by admitting students in the B.Tech course in the disciplines of Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. At the Gateway of Kerala, adjacent to the Sahya Mountains and within a few kilometers from the Palakkad railway junction, in about a 500 acre land is planned for the permanent Campus of IIT Palakkad. As of now, the Institute is functioning at the Ahalia integrated campus and is already equipped to meet all the needs of the students, faculty and staff.

Internship 2017
Internship is an integral part of the curriculum, wherein the students get to spend a part of their summer / winter holidays in an Industrial or Research environment, depending on their interest.
Usually internships are done in the third year (after sixth semester). However, at IIT Palakkad, motivated by the faculty and the academic atmosphere, a large number of students had taken internship in the
second year itself. Eighty-eight students of 2015 batch and two students of 2016 batch have undergone for internship.Two students had gone abroad to do their internship and one of our students went to China as part of Indian Youth Delegation.
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Research@iitpkd : First batch of research students started from July 2017.
The institute has started research based postgraduate programs leading to M.S. and Ph.D. from the academic year 2017-18. Selection of students to the second batch for these programs, under various disciplines , have been completed.